It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.


Edgar Allan Poe

896

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.


Edgar Allan Poe

896

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.


Edgar Allan Poe

896

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.


Edgar Allan Poe

896

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.


Edgar Allan Poe

896

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.


Edgar Allan Poe

896

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.


Edgar Allan Poe

896

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.


Edgar Allan Poe

896

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.


Edgar Allan Poe

896

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.


Edgar Allan Poe

896

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.


Edgar Allan Poe

896

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.


Edgar Allan Poe

896

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.


Edgar Allan Poe

896

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ’the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.’ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ’Artist.’


Edgar Allan Poe

896

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?


Edgar Allan Poe

896

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.


Edgar Allan Poe

896

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.


Edgar Allan Poe

896

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.


Edgar Allan Poe

896

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ’the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.’ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ’Artist.’


Edgar Allan Poe

896

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.


Edgar Allan Poe

896

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